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Well, first of all fuck reddit, but secondly: if you appreciate actual human moderation in any significant sense - it's hard work.
Getting paid to do it is rare (again - fuck reddit, they should get off of there) but on any site that's actually trying to honestly build or host a community it takes time to check the reports, message the people, log the entry all that shit. It's a huge pain in the ass when something blows up, which is why neither you or I will likely ever be mods. When it's the scale of reddit it's bound to be a lot of scrambling until shit cools off again.
To be honest, I actually don't really appreciate human moderation, so that's probably biasing my position.
I can block communities. I can block users. I can set word filters.
If I block someone, I never have to hear from them again. If a moderator does, they'll be back with a new account, and then I DO have to hear from them.
I'd far prefer a "federated" and crowdsourced mechanism to layer onto an extremely lightly moderated foundational layer.
If someone, or someones, want to curate a filter list that aligns with my sensibilities, awesome, I'll opt in. I'll contribute. If I bump into unresolvable issues with other filter curators I'll fork the filter.
I don't need or want a tiny subset of users working full time for free getting burnt out or going on power trip crusades.